232: Prepositions at the End Jul 28, 2015

The tradition that a preposition should not end a sentence goes grammarians in the 18th century believed English ought to bend to the rules of Latin grammar, not because it dramatically affected the interpretation of the sentence. And although it usually makes as much sense to end a sentence with a preposition as it does to eat an appetizer, not before, but after the entree, similar to the effect of the passive voice, sometimes the speaker desires to emphasize the object of the preposition.